RE: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages
On 22-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to
> read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must
> drive the original package off the system to install the new package
> just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8
> woody CD's and no net connection. I suppose one just takes the .deb
> file and uses dpkg-deb to see the contents...?
>
you could extract the files by hand as you suggest
> By the way, woody has 8 CD's. Where is the source code for all of
> them, back on the website? On the CD's?
there will be source cd's available, and of course the ftp/http site.
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